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Investigate devtools restart with a single classloader
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type: enhancement
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Description
Currently devtools uses a split classloader, it might be nice to look into a full restart option as well. We'd probably need to use external tooling to perform the restart.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing Spring Boot devtools restart implementation and its split-classloader behavior, then investigate the external tooling mentioned in the issue. Done means a concrete proposal or implementation path for a full restart with a single classloader, including its scope and validation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, spring-boot
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100